As you know, Barack Obama yesterday won the Presidency, and the Senate Democrats netted at least five more seats in the Senate and at least 17 seats in the House. As you also know, and as Barbara Boxer so eloquently reminded Jim Inhofe after the 2006 Democratic changeover in the Senate, “elections have consequences.” I said […]
A Splash of Green for the Rust Belt is the title of this terrific article from the "NY Times." What this article does, better than any I've read, is make the reality of job creation in the renewables industry palpable. We've seen a lot of great numbers on this: Daniel Yergin's $7 trillion in renewables […]
Forests – I don’t think I’ve adequately covered the subject of forest loss and its extraordinary impact on warming. 20% of warming induced by people comes from forest destruction. I mentioned the extraordinary losses in Borneo in the last post below. We’ve also touched on some incredible potential for carbon sequestration in the heart of […]
Hawaii – One aspect of these paradise islands that takes away some of the glimmer is their reliance on fossil fuels, all of which is imported. The Hawaiians have resolved to not only shift this state of affairs by transitioning to renewables, but they’re going for all the gusto: They’re shooting for 70% of their energy […]
Here are some great stories from major media that merit a look. Beyond these stories, these publications have consistently great coverage on climate change and matters directly relevant to our subject. There’s also a book here for your consideration. National Geographic – This old and universally respected magazine has had an increasingly high profile on […]
Here are some items that I think are worthy of your attention. As always, there is a lot happening, so I can only hope I'm looking at some of the more interesting and salient issues. Don't forget to visit some of the sites at the Blogroll at right for all sorts of great stories and […]
If you haven't made up your mind and want to see how McCain and Obama are on climate change and the environment, some of this material might help you. If you have made up your mind, this stuff might give you an idea of how President Obama or President McCain might pursue matters of the […]
The museum has been a cornerstone of natural history research and public education since it first opened its doors in 1871. Most people who've grown up in the NY metropolitan area have spent many happy hours there learning and being amazed and tourists come from all over the world. AMNH has a brand-new exhibit on […]
Electric Cars – There’s more good coverage on the promising trend to ZEV surface transportation. See Any colour as long as it is green* from the “FT” yesterday. Mitsubishi is getting out in front of GM and Renault-Nissan on electric cars. The car is small but it’s got range and it’s ten times cheaper to […]
These are some juicy items I've been saving up. They probably should be savored by you and me more fully, "But at my back, I always hear, time's winged chariot hurrying near." PV Paint , This is very beautiful, as an old rugby clubmate of mine might've said: Solar Paint on Steel Could Generate Renewable […]
I went to an interesting confabulation yesterday up at the Earth Institute. Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute, and Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UNFCC, kicked around the relative merits of the financial architecture of the Kyoto Protocol. In a nutshell, Sachs thought the way we've been doing business in terms of […]
It’s not as catchy as “Drill, Baby, Drill” but it’s actually where we’re going in the developed world. There have been a number of important developments recently entirely worthy of note. (See observations I’ve made previously in this area under Carbon Markets.) Energy and Commerce – The US House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Committee […]
All the positive things I’ve described here at the blog regarding business practices, technological breakthroughs, and political developments are very much in train. They signal, in my mind, real hope for the future. I don’t, however, want to live with rose-colored glasses obscuring my vision. We’re heading into a tempest now. The world economic crisis […]
Unless you’ve been away on a several-month long vacation in another solar system, you know all about the incredible turmoil we’ve been experiencing in the world stock and money markets and in the “real economy.” Now that the “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008,” with the “Troubled Asset Relief Program” at its core, has been […]
I will never tell you that I can predict what Congress is going to do. Based on everything I've been reading for several weeks from every economist in sight who's been asked, I thought the vast majority of the members of the House of Representatives would've figured it out. And sometimes you just do the […]